British Poetry of the First World War

English Association Conference 2014

International centenary conference at Wadham College, Oxford

Speaker Bio

Adrian BarlowPresident of the EA

Adrian Barlow was formerly Director of Public and Professional Programmes at the
University of Cambridge, Institute of Continuing Education where he lectured in English
Literature. Among his publications are The Great War in British Literature (2000), World
and Time: Teaching Literature in Context (2009) and Extramural: Literature and Lifelong
Learning (2012).

Speakers

Jon Stallworthy

Conference Patron

Jon Stallworthy, poet, critic and editor, has been a leading figure in the study of the literature of war for forty years. Publications include his award-winning biography of Wilfred Owen (1974), and his edition of Owen’s Complete Poems and Fragments (1984). He is the editor of the Oxford Book of War Poetry (1984). His latest book is Survivors’ Songs: From Maldon to the Somme (2008). Professor Emeritus at Oxford University, he is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.

Edna Longley

Keynote Speaker

“. . . the compact essential real truth”: What is a war poem?

Edna Longley is Professor Emerita at Queen’s University, Belfast, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Founding Fellow of the English Association. Her monographs include Louis MacNeice: A Study (Faber, 1989), The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland (Bloodaxe, 1994) and Poetry & Posterity (Bloodaxe, 2000). She has edited Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2008), and has co-edited (with Peter Mackay and Fran Brearton) Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and (with Fran Brearton) Incorrigibly Plural: Louis MacNeice and his Legacy (Carcanet, 2012). Her most recent book is Yeats and Modern Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Jay Winter

Keynote Speaker

Beyond glory: English war poets and the legacy of the Great War

Jay Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His specialist field is the impact of the First World War on the 20th century: in books such as Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (1998) and Remembering War: The Great War between History and Memory in the 20th Century (2007) he has had a powerful and controversial impact on current debates about history, memory and memoir.

Tim Kendall

Conference Convenor

Tim Kendall is Professor and Head of English at the University of Exeter. His books include Modern English War Poetry (2006) and The Art of Robert Frost (2012). He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry (2007) and Poetry of the First World War (2013). His War Poetry blog War Poetry blog is a leading internet site for information about activity, research and news relating to the war poets.

Stuart Lee

Discussion Chair

Dr. Stuart Lee is Reader in E-learning and Digital Libraries at Oxford University and Deputy CIO of the University’s IT Services. A mediaevalist, he has nevertheless been the founding Director of The First World War Poetry Digital Archive. This is the largest online repository of WW1 poetry material, with over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.

Adrian Barlow

PRESIDENT of the EA

Adrian Barlow was formerly Director of Public and Professional Programmes at the University of Cambridge, Institute of Continuing Education where he lectured in English Literature. Among his publications are The Great War in British Literature (2000), World and Time: Teaching Literature in Context (2009) and Extramural: Literature and Lifelong Learning (2012).

Performers

Roderick Williams

Roderick Williams encompasses a wide repertoire, from baroque to contemporary music, in the opera house, on the concert platform and in recital. He works regularly with the major British Opera companies, and is particularly associated with the baritone roles of Mozart. His CD Severn & Somme includes songs by Ivor Gurney, Herbert Howells, John Sanders, Christian Wilson and Ian Venables.

Gary Matthewman

Recently described as movingly perceptive by The Times, Gary Matthewman is establishing himself as one of Britain’s leading young pianists. He developed his strong interest in song and chamber music early on in his studies at the Royal College of Music, and now works almost exclusively within these fields of repertoire.

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